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Lot 228
Sale 2586 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Sep 30, 2016
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(Native Americana)....
(Native Americana). Catlin, George. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1844. Third Edition.
2 vols. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spines sunned, spine end rather frayed, occasional chipping to spines, other light edge wear. Complete with 3 maps (1 folded), and 109 plates. Occasional, generally light offsetting and scattered minor foxing, but internally generally clean. Hinges tender, front hinge of vol. 2 broken, first several signatures in that volume sprung. Howes C-241.